The Federal Network Agency considers the renewed maintenance of the gas pipeline Nord Stream 1 announced by Gazprom to be unfounded. “Even this maintenance interruption is technically incomprehensible for us,” said the President of the Network Agency, Klaus Müller, on Tuesday after a meeting with the Lower Saxony state government.
He considers all previous arguments that it was because of the turbines from Siemens Energy to be false. Experience shows that Russia “made a political decision after each so-called maintenance”. “We won’t know until the beginning of September whether Russia will do that again,” he said. “Probably only the Russian President knows that at the point.”
The Russian state-owned company Gazprom announced last week that gas supplies via the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline would be interrupted from August 31 to September 2. In the three days, the only functioning turbine at the Portovaya compressor station had to be checked and overhauled.
This should be done in cooperation with specialists from Siemens Energy. After that, 33 million cubic meters of natural gas should be delivered daily. This corresponds to the 20 percent of the daily maximum output to which Russia reduced deliveries a few weeks ago.
